Fly-paper holder.



A. OLSSON. FLY PAPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, 1910.

975,152., Patented Nov. 8.1910.

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ALBIN OLSSON, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

FLY-PAPER HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. s, 1910.

Application filed February 3, 1910. Serial No. 541,949.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBIN OLsso-N, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Paper Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fly-paper holders; and has for its object the provision of a device that is especially adapted to retain sticky fly-paper in an open condition, which will safeguard the paper from coming into contact with other articles, and which may be suspended directly from a support or utilized as a bracket against a wall or the like.

The invention consists in the novel construction, combination and adaptation of devices, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same.

The reference numeral 5, 5 and 6, 6 designate the side and end-bars, respectively, of a rectangular wire frame. The diagonal corners of said frame are connected by crossbars 7, 7. Said corners of the frame are provided with loops 8 or indentations in which the respective ends of the cross-bars are secured, as by being bent thereabout. Said cross-bars bisect each other at 9 in proximity to the middle of the frame and afford braces to increase the rigidity of the structure and being in the same horizontal plane with the latter to provide a level support for a sheet of fly-paper.

11 are clamping members for retaining the sheets of paper in place and are each comprised of a wire which is looped about the respective end-bar in proximity to the frame corners to afford a pivotal connection 12 and 12' therewith. Between such connections the wire forming said members is arched, as at 13, while the respective ends thereof extend inwardly at an angle of approximately ninety degrees from the plane of said arched portion and terminate in feet 14: bent in a horizontal plane to afford an advantageous engagement with the fly-paper held upon the frame. Said members are pivotally mounted upon the endbars, as stated, and upon occasion may be swung outwardly, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, raising said feet to permit the removal or replacement of a sheet of fly-paper.

The bail 15 consists of a wire having an intermediate portion 16 arranged longitudinally of the frame with its ends 17 bent perpendicularly thereto and each terminating in a loop 18 pivotally connected to a bight 19 formed medially in the respective side bar 6 or 6. Centrally of its length said bail is provided with a hook 20' by which the structure may be suspended from an object. The arched portion 13 of each of said clamping members is provided with notches 21 and 22 formed by indenting the wire of which said members are formed. The former of said notches are positioned vertically above the respective pivotal connections of the bail, while the latter notches are positioned approximately midway between the notches 21 and the pivotal connections 12 of said members.

The device is employed as follows: The bail is adapted to be swung upon its pivotal connection with the end-bars 6 and 6 until out of engagement with the clamping members; whereupon said members may be tilted outwardly to raise the feet 14L clear of the fly-paper which had been thereby clamped upon the frame. A fresh portion of flypaper being placed on the frame the members are caused to tilt inwardly to press the feet upon the paper and the bail is brought upwardly to bear at each end against the outer side of the respective member, and is accommodated in the desired pair of notches 21 or 22, as it may be intended to hang vertically from an object or be attached to a wall, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The device is especially adapted for domestic use and in stores where it is inconvenient to find places to deposit'sticky flypaper without danger of its coming in contact with ones person. This device may be hung on the wall or other vertical surfaces and retain the paper at all times in a horizontal position and thereby avoid the disagreeable effeots of the papers sticky surface running. A particular merit of the device resides in its simplicity of construction and its provision of clamping members which afford pressure to the fly-paper through tension exerted by the bail.

Having described my invention, what I claim, is

1. In a fly-paper holder, a frame, clamping members mounted on said frame and provided with ofiset portions tiltable in contact with said frame, and a bail adapted to a bail pivoted at each end of the frame, and tilt said members into contact with said clamping members at each end of the frame frame. and urged into clamping relation therewith 2. A fly-paper holder comprising a recby pressure exerted by said bail, said mem- 5 tangular frame, a bail pivoted at each end bers being adapted to retain said bail in ver- 15 of the frame, and clamping members at tical or angular relations.

each end of the frame and urged into ALBIN OLSSON. clamping relation therewith by pressure ex- Witnesses: erted by said bail. F. A. SUNDVALL,

10 3. A fly-paper holder comprising a frame H. BARNES. 

